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Im A Coding Idiot

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Mar 29 2008, 4:07 pm

Ss4toby

Poll: Have you also overlooked this?

Yes	41% (10)
No	58% (14)

Well, today while coding I realized that I had been doing things slightly harder.... You see, in the past(before today) when I needed to pause(a.k.a. in DM as sleep/spawn) for say, 5 minutes. I would go to my little pc calculater(or in my head) and multiply 600 by 5. Well, just now I realized. Instead of putting in sleep(3000) I can just put in sleep(600*5)!!! I've always known you can do this, I've just overlooked it. Isn't that soooo stupid ^_^?

Mar 29 2008, 5:41 pm
Popisfizzy	Uh...that doesn't make you more or less intelligent. In fact, the former will take up fewer CPU cycles.

Mar 29 2008, 5:45 pm

Ss4toby

Popisfizzy wrote:

Uh...that doesn't make you more or less intelligent. In fact, the former will take up fewer CPU cycles.

Yeah, I realized that(or atleast thought) while making the post. But, im more conserned with how to make things easier. Personally, I feel if we take shortcut on the easier things, it will help us find shortcuts on the harder things. Odds are my theory will just home a generation of slobs. However, I can't help but still support it. Pluss, I hadn't post anything in awhile =).

Mar 29 2008, 7:55 pm
Foomer	I think that's about the least important aspect of programming you could possibly ever be concerned about.

Mar 30 2008, 12:01 pm
Vexonater	Think about it this way. 600*5 takes up 5 spaces of code, while 3000 only takes up 4.

Mar 30 2008, 12:40 pm
Lord of light	To your hobby programmers like most of BYOND, that extra space isn't going to make a difference. I do a lot of hacky work-a-rounds just to get things to work the way I want them to, I mean sure it may not be the proper way but atleast it does what I want.

Mar 30 2008, 4:23 pm
Mechana2412	I never thought of it that way. Could've saved me quite a bit of time doing calculations. (I'm known to make alot of really long sleep timers. 10-50 minute long sleep timers.)

Mar 31 2008, 6:07 am
Traztx	Yeah, I find it easier to tweek stuff when writing like that. And as for saving CPU cycles? I tend to put efficiency over maintainability only in the inner loops.

Mar 31 2008, 8:33 am (Edited on Jun 17 2009, 11:53 am)
Foomer	I just appreciate being able to do most simple math in my head and, if that fails, use the calculator sitting next to me.

Jun 16 2009, 3:54 pm
Playstation2	Can you help me code admin and faster log training for my naruto games ^^ Its Shannon Contact me by sending me e-mails to [email protected] or My user Playstation2

Jun 17 2009, 11:34 pm
Ss4toby	Playstation2 wrote: Can you help me code admin and faster log training for my naruto games ^^ Its Shannon Contact me by sending me e-mails to [email protected] or My user Playstation2 Well, sorry man. I would however uh.. I don't help out with rips.. Just keep up the good work and one day you won't need anyone's help..